Mining Urban Performance: Scale-Independent Classification of Cities Based on Individual Economic Transactions

• Main Authors: Sobolevsky, Stanislav, Sitko, Izabela, Tachet des Combes, Remi, Hawelka, B., Murillo Arias, Juan, Ratti, Carlo
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SENSEable City Laboratory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Science and Engineering 2014
• Subjects: Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101687

Intensive development of urban systems creates a number of challenges for urban planners and policy makers in order to maintain sustainable growth. Running efficient urban policies requires meaningful urban metrics, which could quantify important urban characteristics including various aspects of an...